Title
Hemingway’s Impressionistic Islands
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
On the importance of impressionism, imagism, and polyphonic prose to Hemingway’s aesthetic throughout his life, beginning with his early introduction to impressionistic technique under Ezra Pound’s tutelage in Paris. Nagel draws on passages from Islands in the Stream to demonstrate various impressionistic principles, arguing that they “provide a sensory evocation of scene, establish a frame for dialogue or action, and create a cinematic immediacy,” and thus bring to life the world of Thomas Hudson.
Published in
Date
2013
Pages
243-253
COinS
Citation
Grimes, Larry and Bickford Sylvester, eds. Hemingway, Cuba, and the Cuban Works. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013.